The 'death' of what lives in the dark of you is the same as the birth of a new order of yourself that is no longer afraid of the dark.

Topics covered: An impression is always fresh and new, and the first touch is uncontaminated and immaculate; We are created to be vessels of gratitude; You take the small to be the all; As time collapses we see the bigger picture, and the distance between the event and gratitude is shortened; Either God is good or he's not; God doesn't take things away, he changes the conditions under which yo...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 21, 2014. You cannot protect yourself from psychological pain or disappointment and hope to court the Divine at the same time; the narrow entrance into the heart of heaven is a movement; (it is) an unknowable accord found only where revelation and letting go converge and merge, and from their union give birth to a new order of being that is one...

Reality is renewal itself. This means that as we learn to surrender ourselves to the Source of Life that never stops starting over -- so are we empowered to see that whatever seems a lost opportunity, is really the same as a new one being revealed.

Topics covered: How do I make an intention without having expectations about the results; Your work is about finding a freedom you can't give yourself; Disturbance is part of your existence; You don't change a problem, you outgrow the nature that views it as a problem; You have to walk through the door without knowledge; Seeing the limitations of your mind; Real gratitude is never about anythi...

Topics covered: Spiritual love is never accidental; What we call caring is most often self-love; There is nothing new under the sun; Your habitual reactions are a prison; God is a body of intelligent forces; The more you taste freedom, the more you see your captivity; Observing tells you not only about what you're observing but yourself (the observer) as well; Being present at the onset of neg...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 29, 2013. The spiritual journey is not a movement through time, as if one travels from here to there; rather, it is an unfolding realization acting as a catalyst for the transfiguration of oneself... wherein one's identity ceases to be a mere effect -- an unconscious byproduct of passing events -- and becomes, instead, a 'partner in cause' -- a...

Using thought as a tool to resolve the troubles that thought stirs up in the mind is like trying to use your fingers to seize, sort, and settle dust particles that are dancing in a sunbeam across your living room floor.

Here's the real reason a 'coward dies a thousand deaths.' By law, any fear we refuse to face always returns... until we finally learn its essential lesson: resistance ensures repetition, so that whatever we try to go around will come back around again.

Topics Covered: We're drawn to what we're drawn to for the purpose of discovery; Everything we will ever know or ever be is already in our soul; Your soul is seeded with the love of something for the purpose of self-knowledge; Love sees to it that love develops; We love the pleasure of tomorrow, but the pain we experience cannot be separated from that dream...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 11, 2016. Fear -- or any negative state that persists as a power to punish us -- is the inevitable result of believing that we are something that we are not. Once we see the definitive link between the fear, worry, or anger we feel, and the particular false sense of self that doesn't exist without these punishing states, our choice becomes clear:...

Imagine for a moment what your life might be like if you never again were to pick up a complaining thought or feeling. Think of how your days would flow without carrying the additional weight of those inner voices always telling you, "I'm too tired," or "This is too much for me!" The weight of the world would be replaced by a new sense of freedom. Fresh, new energies would flow. If this is th...